Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-12
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
DOMESTIC.

The Medical Congress has adjourned sine
die
The Missouri Bald Knobbers have entered
a plea of guilty.
The American oarsmen are gathering for
the MckeeSport regatta.
Cleveland is making efforts to propitiate
the civil service reformers.
A Chinese physician has been admitted
10 practice in New Orleans.
Five sawmills were burned on the Mime
apolis river front. Loss, $4,000
Teemer may go to Australia to row the
winner of the Beach-Hanlan match.
Later developments in the Ford children
KIDNAPPING case indicate that the woman is
crazy.
The winners of the American Association
games were the Baltimores, Athletics and
Clevelands.
The National League games played on
Saturday were won by the Chicagos, De-
troits, Bostons and Philadelphias.
The case against Mrs. Sarah H. Dodge,
charged with the murder of W s. Babcock
at Gardner, ILL.,, has been dismissed.
Nine indictments were returned by the
Chicago Grand Jury on Saturday against
those who assisted McGarigle to escape.
Jacob Sharp's health is considered to be
IN a worse condition than 1t has been at
any date since his confinement in the Lud-
low-street Jail, and his keepers are of the
opinion that he is not far from death door
Eighteen men and one woman met in
Boston on Saturday in State Convention
and resolved themselves into Labor party.
They adopted platform favoring the
George doctrine and woman suffrage, and
nominated State ticket
FOREIGN.
Minister Lathrop says the Car is not
afraid of assassination.
VIM OConnor of Toronto, Can, on Sat-
urday, beat Alfred Hamm in a sculling
race three miles with turn. Time, 20:16.
Alfred Horn, William MCGOWAN and son,
and man whose name is unknown. put
of from Seal Rocks Nova Scotia for Scat
airy Island Wednesday night in dory to
set their nets while heavy sea was run
ming. The boat swamped and all four were
drowned.
The chance of meeting between the
Gar and Emperor of Germany is now prac-
Gcally over. The German papers Law the
blame on the Gar, but their comments are
cautious and friendly. No doubt the en-
tente between Germany and Russia is
fairly complete.
PACIFIC COAST.
The Oregon fair opens at Salem to-day
There are no fears of an Indian uprising
in Mexico
San Mateo county is TO have new sport
ing grounds.
Colusa is reveliDg in the delirium of a
real estate boom.
Michael Smith, of Modesto, committed
suicide on Saturday.
A line of new railroad from Deming
into Chihuahua is being constructed.
Bucksbaum, County Clerk of Mohave
county, Arizona, has absconded.
A branch of the University of Southern
California is to be established in Montalevo,
Ventura county.
A Woodland syndicate has purchased
the large vineyard of c. and J. Hall, three
miles south of Woodland, for $4,000.
2. P. DELANEY, of La Grange, Stanislaus
county, pulled rifle toward himself
muzzle foremost, Friday and was killed.
a terrific rains.storm occurred in San Der
nardino on Saturday, and torrents of water
poured through the streets. Much damage
was done.
Fred N. Poindexter, Portland young
man, has confessed to number of bur-
the penitentiary.
The Nevada County Fair closed on Sat-
urday. The races on that day were won
by Duroc, Alfred s., Florence R. and
Menna's double team.
Robert Westrap, Jacksonville, Or, sa-
loon keeper, has been indicted by the
Grand Jury for forgery. He was placed
under $500 bonds, which he furnished.
Ex-Jailer Crolot, of the Bernalillo County
IN. NJ Jail, before he was dismissed, fur
nished the prisoners with duplicate keys,
but they were discovered by Crolot's sue
eessor in time to prevent Jail delivery.
SHALL WE PLANT NATIVE OR FOREIGN
TREES Am editorial in the September
Century closes as follows: We feel iusti-
6ed in adding to these general statements
3 word of strong recommendation in favor
of native rs against foreign, or at least as
against European, trees. At the best the
latter are uncertain in almost every case,
while the former have an Unborn and
weil-proved title to be trusted. The most
successful ornamental r,anting that has
ever been done in 81 lea shows its results
in the streets G. ;cn towns rs tockbridge,
Great Darlington, Salem and New Haven,
and was the work of men who went TO the
forest and not to the nursery for their
infant elms and NAPLES. Certeinly our
more recently planted parks offer small
promise of like maturity of beauty with
their European oaks and ashes, their Scotch
and Austrian pines, in almost as deplora-
BILE state as their Norway spruces. When
not ornamental but economic plantations
are IN question, past experience tells very
strongly against European trees, while the
evidence OF recent experiment with native
trees-as In the plantations of indigenous